NPR Declaration of Independence tweets cause commotion

National Public Radio took some heat on Tuesday when its line-by-line tweets of the Declaration of Independence were mistaken for jabs at the current president, the Associated Press reported.

The public radio news organization decided to tweet out the text ofthe document, one line reading “A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people,” with another reading, “and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.”

One Twitter follower called out NPR for condoning violence, then later apologized, saying, “Okay, okay…I screwed up with @npr. I jumped the gun and tweeted when I should have waited for them to finish. I offer my apologies.”

Another asked NPR to stop the tweets, adding, ”This is not the right place.”

Hilarious. People who don’t recognize the founding documents of our republic.

“…Some of the founders’ criticisms of King George III were met with angry responses from supporters of President Donald Trump, who seemed to believe the tweets were a reference to his presidency…” ROTFLMAO.

Tym O’Byrne

Independence? NPR? If they stop sucking at the tit of the taxpayer then im all for their “independence”.

invictus maneo

“NPR Declaration of Independence tweets cause commotion”

Time to pull NPR’s public funding, let’s watch ’em suffocate…

b4k9zp

NPR, just like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (TV version of NPR), is not authorized by anything in the Constitution. If their supporters want taxpayer funds to be used for supporting them, then they should try to get an amendment to the Constitution to allow it, according to Article V of the Constitution–the only legal and lawful means of changing anything that the Constitution states.

hiernonymous

Time to pull the plug on the Air Force, too!

Triplanetary

My parents used to tell me to look it up. The myth that NPR gets more than a pittance from the government is about as true as the myth of Superbowl halftime wife beatings or the good old days in the factory story and the old saw that all white men are ignorant racists. If we can’t tell fact from myth, how can we be trusted with right and wrong ?